MAMADOU DIAW, MICHAEL TOSO
PROJECT FRAMEWORK GOALS: 1. MALARIA 2. MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH a. b. c.
3.
CHILD NUTRITION MATERNAL HEALTH CHILD HEALTH
HEALTHY LIFESTYLES a. b. c.
ADULT NUTRITION WATER AND SATINATION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
VOLUNTEER BREAK-DOWN BY SECTOR
Health: 83 Agriculture: 72 Agro-forestry: 45 CED: 35
VOLUNTEER MALARIA ACTIVITIES
563 people tested, 404 treated for simple malaria PECADOM + active surveillance
12 stations, 18 malaria programs in local language in 2012 Pre/post surveys in 8 communities with a unique malaria show in each
VOLUNTEER MALARIA ACTIVITIES
968 nets repaired, 536 people trained on care and repair, 2,107 people sleeping under newly repaired nets 20 villages, 1,336 nets assessed, 90% with a net had it hung properly 227 of 364 surveyed in Kolda reported having sufficient number of nets in household 50% of 364 surveyed in Kolda report sleeping outside during hot periods
472 students in 7 schools taught 9 basic facts about malaria Collaboration with Malaria No More: Nightwatch curriculum
VOLUNTEER MALARIA ACTIVITIES
Guided conversations, hang-checks, & photo walls Collaboration with Networks: counseling card field testing and booklets in local language translation by PC language coordinators Photo walls: 1,501participants
Volunteers involved at every level of UC implementation Volunteers involved with Networks pre-natal distribution supervision Volunteers paired with Networks point focals in continuous distributions
VOLUNTEER MALARIA ACTIVITIES
In-depth learning with Thies distance learning center Training provided by NIH, CDC, Johns Hopkins, PMI, and more Peace Corps staff and volunteer coordinators from 21 countries trained every 4 months
Developing standard research protocols (in process) Collaborating with PMI headquarters to develop a number of protocols Nocturnal sleeping activity, diagnosis & treatment algorithm, protocol to improve IPTp access, entomology, net durability, and insecticide resistance
VOLUNTEER MALARIA ACTIVITIES
District baseline survey in Kedougou ďƒ˜â€Ż Training and implementation of a baseline survey in 10 health posts in the Kedougou health district to collect data on net use determinants and health care seeking behaviors of families with children under 5
SPA FUNDING
October 2011 – September 2012: Sarah Legare: Benjamin Gascoigne Ian Hennessee Meredith Hickson
$20,982
Linguere UC Kedougou Event PECADOM + Matam UC Spent: Remaining:
September 2012 – March 2013: Owmy Bouloute Andrew Wynn
$2,251.09 $458.80 $918.56 $280.31 $3,909 $17,073
$17,073
Kedougou Survey Thies UC Spent: Remaining:
$2,780.72 $450.52 $3,231.24 $13,841.76
SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT
Facebook Reach: 212,570 October 2012-March 2013
WEBSITE VIEWERSHIP
Website Visits: 4,728 unique visitors October 2012-March 2013
CHALLENGES Volunteer involvement Although our objective is to make malaria a cross- sector activity it is still challenging to involve volunteers from other sectors
Reporting, Monitoring, and Evaluation Number of volunteers reporting on their malaria activities has improved but is still low
Perception of Volunteers Many of our partners do not yet value the potential contribution of volunteers as they do not see volunteers as health professionals
OPPORTUNITIES Working to supplement nets available for Universal Coverage Chris Hedrick is in the process of obtaining a sizable contribution of nets from Against Malaria to supplement the next distribution
PMI/Peace Corps Operational Research Protocol Development Development of a series of simple, straightforward protocols that volunteers in Senegal, and eventually every PMI country, can follow, in collaboration with PMI country teams and headquarters
PECADOM PECADOM plus pilot to be scaled up in the Saraya district, variation on the current model in a site in Kolda
Pre-Elimination in the North PATH/MACEPA collaboration will be continued
Entomology Potential work with PMI/Peace Corps on entomology support
THANK YOU!